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Night Owl
 
Home Town: Duvall, Washington, USA
Living In: Woodinville, Washington, USA
Member Since: Nov. 2006
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Frying, Italian, Southern, Quick & Easy, Gourmet
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, Camping, Fishing, Music
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  • Coleslaw I
  • Coleslaw I  
    By: Denise Smith
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  • This recipe has been rated 70 times with an average star rating of 4.3
Sausage Tomato Soup
Rockin' Oysters Rockefeller
About this Cook
I love to cook obviously. But I am just as well renowned in film (BIG MOVIE BUFF) and physical training (GYM GOER). . . Between those three things, I fit my lovely significant other and my work into my life quite well. . . Hope you enjoy the food and input I can offer. . .
My favorite things to cook
EVERYTHING!!! The only way I get to spend my nights off fully is by finding a new recipe and just cooking it while having a nice relaxing drink in hand. Seafood is my preferable family thang hehe, but I also love doing my MANLY barbecuing and a few italian recipes da boot. But I will always be game to try something new. . .
My favorite family cooking traditions
Funny thing is nobody in family really likes to cook. I just started teaching myself as a teenager and just picked it up. But I am writing my own cookbook now and am hoping to be the start of something resembling a family tradition. . .
My cooking triumphs
I consider a triumph to be anytime I leave my guest, party, eater, etc. satisfied. I have made some delicious dishes. Good looking and good tasting. And if they are left either with good remarks or none at all because they are too busy stuffing their face, I am happy : )
My cooking tragedies
I am still learning how to properly cook steaks. They are my achilles heal unfortunately. . . But aside from that I deathly oversalted beef jerkey once, ruined a large pot by letting a can of corn settle at the bottom of a stew and char, and I did accidentally spice a pasta up with cayenne thinknig it was oregano (it was mislabled). . . So yes, I like everybody has had their misfortunes. I figure it to be a lesson learned in becoming a better cook. . .
Recipe Reviews 33 reviews
Absolutely Delicious Stuffed Calamari
As you can see in my picture, they aren't very pretty. So I gotta meet half way with my review. The idea is there. The flavors can be manipulated. But when it comes down to it, they were a pain to stuff and didn't look that visually appealing in the end. I tried to work around the texture by just frying the assembled "tubes" and doing the sauce on the side. It still looked like a plate full of blown up balloons I was serving. My best advice is to do what I did in frying em up, only bread em or toss through some flour/crumbs first to take away that texture and unnappealing appearance. . .

4 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jan. 25, 2009
Creamy Onion Garlic Bread
Pretty darn tasty. . . I think real garlic always supercedes using just powder when the occasion arises. Other than that keep to the recipe. Watch out for that always tricky broiler though. The thick creaminess of the topping is more susceptible to burn than most things. Literally a window of just a few seconds between done and burning. But just slice it up once its done and toss the pieces in a bread basket like you would with any other loaf and I guarantee it will be a party favorite. . .

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jul. 27, 2008
Warm Crab Dip I
I've had better (see: Warm Crab Parmasean Dip). . . And for some reason I can't really enjoy a dip/spread of seafood proportions without including such preferrences as Worcestershire, lemon, tobasco, extra garlic, and some pepper. . . Just a few things that no seafood dish should be without in my eyes. . .

2 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jul. 16, 2008
 
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